Jayla
#529 for girls in 2025, 569 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #12,491
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 3,410 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 46,432since 1968
Jayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #529 | 569 | — | |
| 2024 | #404 | 788 | — | |
| 2023 | #355 | 862 | — | |
| 2022 | #340 | 949 | — | |
| 2021 | #308 | 1,039 | — | |
| 2020 | #301 | 1,074 | — | |
| 2019 | #251 | 1,286 | — | |
| 2018 | #241 | 1,351 | — | |
| 2017 | #237 | 1,350 | — | |
| 2016 | #232 | 1,391 | — | |
| 2015 | #238 | 1,394 | — | |
| 2014 | #207 | 1,625 | — | |
| 2013 | #174 | 1,839 | — | |
| 2012 | #170 | 1,847 | — | |
| 2011 | #149 | 2,090 | — | |
| 2010 | #132 | 2,381 | — | |
| 2009 | #128 | 2,539 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #117 | 2,927 | — | |
| 2007 | #131 | 2,625 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #99 | 3,410 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #197 | 1,765 | — | |
| 2004 | #216 | 1,561 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #200 | 1,661 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #210 | 1,571 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #222 | 1,422 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #261 | 1,259 | — | |
| 1999 | #316 | 982 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #387 | 715 | — | |
| 1997 | #461 | 544 | — | |
| 1996 | #554 | 421 | — | |
| 1995 | #694 | 307 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,133 | 158 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,237 | 140 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,622 | 94 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,740 | 83 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,295 | 48 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jayla! It came in at #4,489, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jayla is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#496 · 1 in 3,694
- Ohio#734 · 1 in 6,794
- Michigan#966 · 1 in 9,511
- Pennsylvania#1,192 · 1 in 13,692
- Florida#1,258 · 1 in 12,513
Best ever in a state: #26 in Mississippi, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #496 | 9 | 1 in 3,694 |
| Ohio | #734 | 10 | 1 in 6,794 |
| Michigan | #966 | 6 | 1 in 9,511 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,192 | 5 | 1 in 13,692 |
| Florida | #1,258 | 6 | 1 in 12,513 |
| Texas | #1,464 | 9 | 1 in 15,287 |
| California | #3,226 | 5 | 1 in 51,361 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jayla
- 125 spots since 2024 (#404 → #529)
- 228 spots since 2020 (#301 → #529)
- 291 spots since 2015 (#238 → #529)
- Biggest jump: 439 spots in 1995 (#1,133 → #694)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 2025 (#404 → #529)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2006 at #99 (3,410 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 2006
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
- Highest: 1 in 558 girls born in 2006 were named Jayla (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,825 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 44.7% of all girls named Jayla (20,740) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #4,489 (1968) | #4,489 |
| 1970s | 71 | #4,652 (1977) | #5,857 |
| 1980s | 282 | #2,295 (1988) | #3,485 |
| 1990s | 3,494 | #316 (1999) | #1,058 |
| 2000s | 20,740 | #99 (2006) | #178 |
| 2010s | 16,554 | #132 (2010) | #203 |
| 2020s | 5,281 | #301 (2020) | #373 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jayla in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 19,616 of them was named Jayla, which outranked 89.6% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,614Shalonda95
- #1,614Talisha95
- #1,614Torie95
- #1,622Jayla94
- #1,622Ellyn94
- #1,622Jaycee94
- #1,622Kadie94
- #1,630Alba93
- #1,630Female93
- #1,630Fernanda93
Tied with 7 names at #1,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.